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The following is NOT an official posting of the College of Liberal Arts. Rather, it is intended to be a temporary posting of information to facilitate student advising in the School of Mathematical Sciences and will remain only until the College of Liberal Arts has a comparable page posted on their server.

Liberal Arts Curriculum

Required Core Courses (20 credit hours)
Year level 1 and 2

Writing (4 qch):

  • 0502-227 Writing

Humanities (8 qch -- Select two courses from different areas):

  • 0505-2xx Fine Arts
  • 0504-2xx Literature
  • 0507-3xx History
  • 0509-2xx Philosophy
  • 0508-211 Science, Technology & Values

Social Sciences (8 qch -- Select two courses):

  • 0513-214 Introduction to International Relations
    or 0513-211 American Politics
  • 0511-211 Principles of Microeconomics
  • 0514-210 Introduction to Psychology
  • 0515-210 Foundations of Sociology
  • 0510-210 Culturual Anthropology

Required Intermediate Level Course (4 qch)
Year level 2 or 3

Arts of Expression (4 qch):

  • 0504-319 Arts of Expression

Required Advanced Study -- Concentration (12 qch)
Year level 3, 4 or 5

A Liberal Arts Concentration consists of three 400 to 500 level courses in one of the areas listed below. The areas that have been marked with an asterix (*) prepare students for a Minor in Liberal Arts. For more information about Minors in Liberal Arts click here.

  • American history*
  • American politics*
  • Applied communications*
  • Art history*
  • Communication and culture*
  • Creative writing*
  • Criminal justice*
  • Economics*
  • European history*
  • History of the modern world*
  • International relations*
  • Language (French*, German*, Italian*, Japanese*, Spanish*)
  • Literature*
  • Mass media*
  • Psychology*
  • Public policy
  • Science, technology and environmental studies*
  • Sociology/anthropology*
  • Writing studies*

Additional concentrations are available in these interdisciplinary areas:

  • American artistic experience
  • American English for ESL students
  • American Sign Language
  • Environmental studies
  • Foreign language culture
    (Arabic, Chinese, French,
    German*, Italian*, Japanese*,
    Russian, Spanish*)
  • Global studies
  • Minority relations
  • Music*
  • Peace studies
  • Perspectives on religion
  • Science and technology
  • Women's studies

External General Education

Students complete the General Education portion of their degree program according to the following guidelines:

  • Courses cannot be in the School of Mathematical Sciences
  • Courses must be in the College of Science or the College of Liberal Arts, but may not appear in the list of Courses Not Suitable for General Education that concludes this page.

The minimum number of credits required for this segment of the general education currciculum is as follows:

Applied Mathematics 18
Applied Statistics 22
Computational Mathematics 14

A Final Note on General Education

Each of the programs in the School of Mathematical Sciences requires 90 credits of General Education, including the Project Based Calculus sequence and one or more courses in Computer Science. Because these courses are listed elsewhere in the program description (though they are counted as general education credits) they have not been listed here.

College of Science Courses Not Suitable for General Education:

Biological Sciences
1001-200Freshman Symposium
1001-241Biological Science Research
1001-280Laboratory Teaching Experience
1001-300Introduction to Co-op Seminar
1001-362Introduction to Bioinformatics Computing
1001-363Advanced Bioinformatics Computing
1001-364High Performance Computing for Bioinformatics
1001-370Biological Writing
1001-499Biology Co-op
1001-599Independent Study Elective
1006-200Environmental Science Freshman Seminar I
1006-210Environmental Science Freshman Seminar II
1006-599Independent Study: Environmental Science

Chemistry
1008-511Advanced Instrumental Analysis
1008-620Building Scientific Apparatus
1010-200Chemistry Safety
1010-230Introduction to Co-op Seminar
1010-401Chemical Literature
1010-480Laboratory Teaching Experience
1010-499Chemistry Co-op
1010-541Chemical Research
1010-542Chemical Research
1010-543Chemical Research
1010-561Advanced Undergraduate Chemistry Research I, II, III
1010-599Chemistry Independent Study: Undergraduate
1011-309Glassblowing Techniques

Mathematics and Statistics
1016-210Math Seminar I
1016-211Math Seminar II
1016-258Introduction to Mathematica
1016-260Statistical Computing with Excel and Minitab
1016-360Statistical Computing with SAS
1016-399Mathematics Co-op Seminar
1016-437Computer Methods in Applied Mathematics
1016-453SAS Programming
1016-599Mathematics: Independent Study

Physics
1017-200Physics Orientation
1017-201Physics Orientation II
1017-317Introduction to Computational Physics and Programming
1017-321Introduction to Laboratory Techniques
1017-350Sophomore Physics Seminar
1017-395Physics Research
1017-432Computer Interfacing to Laboratory Instrumentation
1017-480Mathematical Methods of Physics I
1017-481Mathematical Methods of Physics II
1017-550Senior Physics Seminar
1017-595Advanced Physics Research
1017-599Physics: Advanced Independent Study

Medical Sciences
1024-210 Medical Technology Seminar
1024-401Hematology/Immunohematology
1024-432Clinical Laboratory Instrumentation
1025-xxxAll nuclear medicine courses on specific procedures, instrumentation, skills, etc.
1026-203Medical Science Freshman Seminar
1026-230Computers in Medicine
1026-333Patient Care
1026-352Medical Laboratory Management
1026-353New Medical Technologies
1026-519Radiation Protection
1026-599Independent Study: Medical Sciences
1027-201Introduction to Biomedical Computing
1027-305M Programming
1027-315Internet, Java, and Health Care
1030-xxxAll ultrasound courses on specific procedures, instrumentation, skills, etc.
1032-xxxAll physician assistant courses on specific procedures, instrumentation, skills, etc.

Imaging Science
1051-200Imaging Science First Year Seminar
1051-211Programming for Imaging Science
1051-411C++ Programming for Imaging Science
1051-499Imaging Science Co-op
1051-501Senior Project I
1051-502Senior Project II
1051-503Senior Project III
1051-599Independent Study

General Science Exploration
1018-210General Science Exploration I
1018-211General Science Exploration II

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B.S. in Computational Mathematics
B.S. in Applied Statistics
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